# Claude Opus 5 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3.1 Pro across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-5-vs-kimi-3-1-pro
- Last updated: October 23, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K3.1 Pro leads overall 82 to 79.95.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 90.9 for Claude Opus 5 and 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is OSWorld 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 70.6% and 79.6%.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Pending |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | null | 1.05M |
| Overall Score | 79.95 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 80 | 42 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 78.5 (Supported · #4/132)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 90.8% | 92.1% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE w/ tools | 64.7% | 70.0% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp (10-agent, prerelease) | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 70.6% | 79.6% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| MCP Atlas | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Atlas claim coverage | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Anthropic harness) | 23.58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Anthropic harness) | 93.74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 11.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 73.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 23.5 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 26.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 84.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 36% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 12% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Coming soon | 65.70% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | Coming soon | 38.1% | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench | Coming soon | 80.6% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 43.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam (CLI) | Coming soon | 44.2% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| Frontier Finance | Coming soon | 58.6% | Coming soon |
| HANDBOOK.md | Coming soon | 44.6% | Coming soon |
| Business Operation | Coming soon | 37.8% | Coming soon |
| Financial Modeling | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |
| Financial Research | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Hallu Bench Hard (tools) | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 20.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 70.8 (Supported · #9/153)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Bug Hunt Bench | 27.0 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 96% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 68.8% | 75.5% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 63.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 52.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (episode 1) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 96.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 97.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 46.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 35.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (binary) | Coming soon | 31.5% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench 3.0 Long-horizon | Coming soon | 61.2% | Coming soon |
| sweMarathon | Coming soon | 51.7% | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.2 | Coming soon | 36.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 81 (#8/27)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 90.9 (#4/56)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: 98 (#1/56)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | 29.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | 83.0% | 90.2% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.366 | 0.728 | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.821 | 0.927 | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (tools) | 85.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.9% | 67.4% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| OfficeQA Pro v2 | Coming soon | 64.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 93.4% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 89% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 95.4% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 39.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 63.0% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (Gemini judge) | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf w/ Python (Gemini judge) | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 81.7 (Supported · #7/187)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 64.7% | 70% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE w/o tools | 56.3% | 51.1% | Claude Opus 5 |
| HLE-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (raw) | 67.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 57.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 59.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 90.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProteinGym Hard | 47.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 42.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Organic chemistry V2 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 61.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 94.2% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 94.2% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Hallu Bench | Coming soon | 5.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 89.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 4.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 91.6 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMO 2026 | 42/42 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (no tools) | 60.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (tools) | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (no tools) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (tools) | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 85.614% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 73.171% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 5 or Kimi K3.1 Pro?

Kimi K3.1 Pro is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3.1 Pro?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 90.9 for Claude Opus 5 and 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 5 currently has 80 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K3.1 Pro cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K3.1 Pro currently has 42 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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